Definitions
1. (1) In this Act, “associate” means a person, whether directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, (a) who has the power to direct or to cause to be directed the management and policies of any gas transmitter, distributor or storage company, (b) whose management and policies any gas transmitter, distributor or storage company has the power to direct or to cause to be directed, (c) whose management and policies any other person has the power to direct or to cause to be directed, provided that such other person has such power to direct or to cause to be directed the management and policies of any gas transmitter, distributor or storage company; (“personne qui a un lien avec”) “Board” means the Ontario Energy Board; (“Commission”) “construct” means construct, reconstruct, relocate, enlarge or extend; (“construire”) “distributor” means a person who supplies gas, fuel oil or propane to a consumer, and “distributing” and “distribution” have corresponding meanings; (“distributeur”, “distribuer”, “distribution”) “fuel oil” means any liquid hydrocarbon within the meaning from time to time of the Canadian Government Specifications Board specification 3-GP-2 entitled FUEL OIL, 3-GP-3 entitled KEROSINE, 3-GP-6 entitled DIESEL FUEL, or, when used for heating, cooking or lighting, within the meaning from time to time of 3-GP-27 entitled LIGHTING NAPHTHA; (“mazout”) “gas” means natural gas, manufactured gas, propane-air gas or any mixture of any of them; (“gaz”) “land” includes any interest in land; (“bien-fonds”) “manufactured gas” means any artificially produced fuel gas, except acetylene and any other gas used principally in welding or cutting metals; (“gaz manufacturé”) “Minister” means the Minister of Energy; (“ministre”) “oil” means crude oil, and includes any hydrocarbon that can be recovered in liquid form from a pool through a well; (“pétrole”) “owner” includes a person who is a mortgagee, lessee, tenant and occupant of land and a guardian, committee, executor, administrator or trustee in whom land is vested; (“propriétaire”) “person”, in addition to its meaning in the Interpretation Act, includes a municipality; (“personne”) “pipe line” means a pipe that carries a hydrocarbon, other than undiluted liquefied petroleum gas, and includes every part thereof and adjunct thereto; (“pipeline”) “pool” means an underground accumulation of oil or natural gas or both, separated or appearing to be separated from any other such underground accumulation; (“gisement”) “producer” means a person who has the right to remove gas or oil from a well, and “produce” and “production” have corresponding meanings except when referring to documents or records; (“producteur”, “produire”, “production”) “propane” means a hydrocarbon consisting of 95 per cent or more of propane, propylene, butane or butylene, or any blend thereof; (“propane”) “regulations” means the regulations made under this Act; (“règlements”) “spacing unit” means a surface area established by a regulation made under the Energy Act or a predecessor thereof for the purpose of drilling for, or the production of, oil or gas, and includes the subsurface specified by the regulation; (“unité d’espacement”) “station” means a compressor station, a metering station, an odorizing station or a regulating station; (“station”) “storage company” means a person engaged in the business of storing gas; (“compagnie de stockage”) “transmission line” means a pipe line, other than a production line, a distribution line, a pipe line within an oil refinery, oil or petroleum storage depot, chemical processing plant or pipe line terminal or station; (“ligne de transport”) “transmitter” means a person who carries a hydrocarbon by transmission line, and “transmit” and “transmission” have corresponding meanings; (“transporteur”, “transporter”, “transport”) “utility line” means a pipe line, a telephone, telegraph, electric power or water line, or any other line that supplies a service or commodity to the public; (“réseau de services publics”) “well” means a hole drilled into a geological formation of Cambrian or more recent age, except a hole where no gas or oil is encountered that is drilled for the production of fresh water or salt. (“puits”) Re-enactment (2) On a day to be named by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor, the definition of “gas” in subsection (1) is repealed and the following substituted therefor: “gas” means natural gas, substitute natural gas, synthetic gas, manufactured gas, propane-air gas or any mixture of any of them. (“gaz”) R.S.O. 1990, c. O.13, s. 1. PART I   THE BOARD